The Sea of Ice by Caspar David Freidrich (1823-24)
The trick with saunas is not ignoring the heat, but letting yourself be penetrated by it and giving yourself over to it. I’m sitting in a sauna in Hackney and watching the sweat drip off my face, onto my stomach and legs, and thinking about this conundrum. To tolerate the sauna is to accept that sweat is…
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